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Dark Blood

as Boy

2012
The Thing Called Love

as James Wright

1993
Silent Tongue

as Talbot Roe

1993
Sneakers

as Carl

1992
My Own Private Idaho

as Michael "Mike" Waters

1991
Dogfight

as Eddie Birdlace

1991
I Love You to Death

as Devo Nod

1990
Little Nikita

as Jeff Grant

1988
Running on Empty

as Danny Pope

1988
Stand by Me

as Chris Chambers

1986
The Mosquito Coast

as Charlie Fox

1986
Explorers

as Wolfgang Müller

1985
Surviving

as Philip Brogan

1985
River Phoenix River Phoenix

Birthday

1970-08-23

Place of Birth

Metolius, Oregon USA

Biography

River Jude Phoenix (August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an up-and-coming movie star when he died suddenly of drug-induced heart failure in 1993 at the age of 23. His brief career was marked by critically-acclaimed performances in films such as Stand by Me (1986), Running on Empty (1988) and Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho (1991, with Keanu Reeves). Phoenix was the eldest of five children whose itinerant parents were members of a radical Christian group called the Children of God (later known as The Family). His family lived in communes in Oregon, Texas, Puerto Rico and Venezuela before settling in Florida. Pursuing entertainment careers for their children, the parents moved the family to Los Angeles, where Phoenix began getting television jobs in the early 1980s. Although his first feature film was 1985's Explorers (with young Ethan Hawke), it was his stand-out performance in the ensemble drama Stand by Me that gained him national recognition. Phoenix was labeled a promising young actor and his career took off. He co-starred with Harrison Ford in both The Mosquito Coast (1986) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and earned an Oscar nomination for his performance in Running on Empty. His other films include Little Nikita (1988, with Sidney Poitier), Dogfight (1991) and Sneakers (1992, with Robert Redford). In 1993, outside Johnny Depp's L.A. nightclub, The Viper Room, Phoenix went into cardiac arrest and died, a result of lethal levels of heroin and cocaine.
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